From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Making DocBook xml books from org mode? Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:37:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87intdhgny.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <1475172280.399769.741096521.05684B25@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuGB-0007am-FS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:37:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuG5-0002G8-Gb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:37:38 -0400 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:33341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuG5-0002Fj-9C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:37:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <1475172280.399769.741096521.05684B25@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Peter Davis Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2016-09-29, at 20:04, Peter Davis wrote: > I've started a new position in which I have to create and maintain a > large set of documents in DocBook xml format. For new books, I'd really > like to use org mode, since a) I'm already familiar with it, b) I love > it, and c) I believe it does (or can be made to do) nearly everything I > need. Nice. Of many things XML is ill-suited to, marking text up is a nice exception: it seems really good at it (definitely way better than LaTeX, of which I'm a great fan!). > 3. The direct route from org to DocBook xml seems to be missing. From Why not start with the HTML exporter and write your own one? It's quite fun, and can be done in reasonable time. I did a talk about writing your own Org exporter during EmacsConf 2015; also, I had a plan (and I even started) for a series of blog posts on that topic, but I don't have time for that now. Still, you might want to pursue this road - you'd have (as opposed to Pandoc, which admittedly is a great tool, but has its limitations, as Joost mentioned) full control over what get exported to what. > 4. [LONGSHOT] Is there any way to /import/ docbook xml into org mode? XSLT? > Thank you very much. > > -pd Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski